Stuffs

We went to T'ville this past weekend because Luke's grandmother passed away last week. It was both sad, and completely beautiful because she lived her life. It was full and she loved the Lord and she was without her husband for many years. I am thankful for such a great lady and for her time here on earth, and just as equally thankful for her passing as she is now with our maker and Bridegroom and I cannot imagine the unspeakable joy she has because of that. She is seeing her family and husband and all the Lord has for her there with him. She won't miss us, though we will miss her..and thats ok.

Got to see so many people while there and enjoyed hanging out with family. Not only do I have a great family myself but I married into an amazing one too..such a blessed girl I am.

The kids have been in school for a month now and are loving it. I'm still getting used to it, mostly just having to get up in the morning, but they are so thoroughly enjoying it that its hard not to feel their joy about it all. Both are doing well and seem to have friends already, so that's an answer to prayer!

Kate I have learned is a serious bum when the older two aren't around. She loves watching tv, and playing games on the ipad. I literally have to pull her away to do other things or she'd do that all day..

Micah is getting so big. At 4 months he's 17 lbs.. and pretty long though I need to measure him to see how big. He's wearing 9 month clothes and has ignored my requests to slow down on the growing thing. Stinker..:)

My coffee table.

Luke has asked me several times that we replace our coffee table. We were given it 9 years ago. It has scratches, dents, food that has dried and cannot be scraped off anymore, and has chewed up ends from a Rottweiler puppy we once had. Its not pretty anymore ya'll.

I cannot seem to part with it. It has seen life. It has been a place to put feet up, to eat dinner on, it has seen super hero's jumping from it, and glasses of sweet tea. It represents everything I want my home to be..A house the shows life, that sometimes life is messy and sometimes it leaves behind marks that show where we have been. I want people to know that they are always welcome at my house, but that it will not always be spick and span. That they can be comfortable because they can't possibly hurt our furniture anymore then it already is..

So if you come to my house, expect mess, expect life, and expect to see my grungy beat up coffee table that you can put your feet up on. :)

Dog Island 2012 notes

* Stayed with Luke's brother and our sister in law to break up our drive down, they have cats and we learned Micah is probably allergic due to a swollen face upon being around said cat. But enjoyed our time with them all the same.

* Being at the beach is wonderful.

* We had a 4 bdr. house all to ourselves.

* I realized how badly I missed a king sized bed.

* My children tired themselves out so well that they went to bed without issues all week.

* Micah slept like a champ. I however did not. What gives?!

* Walking on the beach every night after dinner should be a regular event in my book. Too bad we live so far from the ocean.

* Going with a set of Grandparents makes it even better. I enjoyed naps, finished a book(Water for Elephants, don't recommend due to some trash up in there!),had plenty of hammock time all to myself and went fishing thanks to her playing with them.

* My mother in law and I split the cooking. Pretty sure I got the better end of the deal on that one.

* My 14 year old sister in law is so awesome and sweet.

* Dog Island has shells. Like real big ones that aren't broken.

* It stormed on our way there and we had a choppy boat ride over. Noah freaked. Thankful our ride back wasn't so crazy.

* It feels nice having a tan.

* Forgetting to pack your bathingsuit will make you have to detour through Tallahassee to pick one up.

* We saw sharks, sting rays and crabs. No jelly fish thankfully.

* No one got burned the whole week. Score one for Me and sunscreen.

* On our way back home, we saw my sweet friend Patti, who made Micah his very own blankie because my kids love their Aunt Patti blankies, and she's been a gem crocheting 4 for us!! Also saw my Grandmother, ate dinner with her, saw my two youngest cousins and my aunt and uncle while there. Long travel times, but soo amazingly thankful for our time away. 9 days with my family is more then I can ask for!

Imperfect.

There are days where I feel like super woman. My kids act ok, my house is clean and there is a warm dinner waiting for my Husband when he comes home. 

There are days when I'm just ok. Had to discipline the kids more, laundry is washed but waiting to be folded and dinner gets cooked after Hubby is home and I can pass off baby. 

Then there are days like today. I yelled. Loudly. No part of my house got clean, my children played video games all day, and I sobbed when Hubby came home because I was simply overwhelmed. 

It would be easy to say that I am always looking to the Lord for strength, but that is not the case. Sometimes we fall and crash and burn, and are reminded how deeply flawed the flesh is.

Sometimes it takes your husband telling you to go to Starbucks to sit and remember to take the time to just ask.  Ask for Him. For a double portion of all that He is. Walking by His life is so easy, too easy really. Thankful that He promised that His fullness lives in me , just need to remind my flesh that it has been crucified with Christ and no longer lives so that He can be revealed even more clearly me.

News you can use.

Ok, so not really. Just me typing out random stuff on my iPad. :) So Olivia and Noah will be getting registered for school hopefully this week or next. The school they are going to just got charter status so that's exciting! Thankfully we are zoned for there and won't have to apply. Kate has been going in the potty a lot more, though I still feel leagues away from having her potty trained. If she doesn't potty train before the kids go back to school, I'll focus on it then when I can devote more time to her and the process. Micah is adorable. Seriously. While I still am not getting a ton done during the day, he has gotten a lot better. Happily sitting in the bouncy seat for short periods and letting the kids give him a paci if need be till I can get him. He has also been sleeping great at night the past 4 nights averaging 6+ hours and then going back Dow. For a couple more after eating. Such a sweetie. Luke found out this week that they want to offer Luke a week of paid vacation. Something we were told we wouldn't probably get, but Luke's bosses really love him and are really nice and I guess decided he earned it..haha. Trying to decide what to do, tried looking into the beach, but we can't afford $850+ for a condo/hotel room, so we are trying to look into other options. We'll see. We haven't seen the beach in 2 years, and haven't had a vacation for 4..it's time! I've been on a baking binge lately. I REALLY love baking..it's a stress relief for more, just need to find healthier recipes so when I eat said baked goods, I won't put on 50lbs...still below what I was when I got pregnant, but know that I need to be more careful and make healthier choices. Body is finally back to feeling good and as soon as I have more then 5 minutes to myself I plan on picking running back up, cause surprisingly I actually miss it..:)

Poor Micah..

He's had a rough go of things. He's seen more Dr's and nurses then some of my kids combined. 2 visits to the pediatricians office in a month, 2 visits to the hospital for blood work and several conversations with his Ped and Midwife about his rapid breathing(which is slowing down, thank the Lord!).

We noticed he had thrush the other day and like most people sought out the most common treatment(which I was told would have been his Pediatricians recommendation had I called him.)...so for 3+ days my baby had a purple mouth due to Gentian Violet(it stains everything!). Well he was getting fussier and fussier during treatment. On Sunday morning I realized when I wiped Micah's mouth that there was blood on my rag and once the purple faded some over the course of the day, I realized his poor little mouth was covered in sores. I read that the Gentian Violet can do that in rare occasions. Sucks we were in the small minority that reacted to it. Thankfully it did its job and he doesn't have thrush anymore, but now we are having to treat the sores which is just by treating pain till they go away on their own. Its pitiful cause he doesn't want to nurse much cause it hurts and thus has been very crabby. After seeing our ped. yesterday I believe he is finally getting some relief. He slept 2- 4 hr. chunks last night, nursed well, and was content all morning(and by content, I mean he wasn't screaming while I was holding him.) and even let me finish breakfast while he sat in a bouncy seat which I haven't ever been able to to. Thankful the pain relief regimen is helping and he's feeling somewhat better.

Hoping we are on the up swing and that poor Micah won't have to worry about Dr's or anything else any time soon.

Good news is my baby is a few oz. shy of 13 lbs. and his Dr was pleased with how he looked and everything(despite the mouth stuff).

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